Looks like the whole Agile world is running towards the junit coverage for quality. Does higher Junit Tests Coverage ensures better code quality? No way. The only assurance of better code quality is low complexity. Junit Tests should be used as a tool to assist in achieving low complexity. Only high code coverage never ensures [...]
Nowadays Agile is almost on its peak of popularity, and Scrum is on everybody’s tongue. I see Scrum being followed almost everywhere. I even came through videos where kids were using Scrum to manage their tasks. I see small/big projects using Scrum to deliver quick and superior products. I see questions and curiosity about Scrum. [...]
Maven Lucene Plugin is an open source maven plugin for Apache Lucene developed by Xebia India IT Architects Ltd . The project is hosted on SourceForge and can be found here. It is released under GNU General Public License (GPL). The artifact is uploaded at Central Maven Repository http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/xebia/. You can browse the artifact here. [...]
The first version of Maven Lucene Plugin has been released. The plugin is an open source project hosted at SourceForge. The plugin can create indexes from a file data source. The index can be configured by specifying elements in a file lucene.xml. It also provides a maven dependency maven lucene search which provides utility methods [...]
I recently did an experiment by designing using CRC cards. I did with my team and found it quiet useful and comfortable. The design outcome of this process was also the team’s design rather than one person’s design. Also, as everyone participated in the designing the design was better than a single person’s design. Please [...]
Recently I experimented with pair programming by using two keyboards, one for driver and another for navigator. I was amazed by its out comings. It made programming fun and the code quality, design as well as the productivity increased. I have written the complete blog on my official blog site. Looking at the comments I [...]
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You will often find people in Agile teams cribbing about the overload of meetings. Initially I also cribbed. Then, with time I became more “Agile” and then thought “communication is a key feature” of Agile. I tried to attend meetings with interest. However, I always tend to return towards cribbing about “Overload of meetings”. So, [...]
My tryst with TDD (Test Driven Development) started around 2 years back, when my tech lead told me to try to code this way. The first feeling was of shock. I admired my lead a lot due to his immense technical capability. So, this process centric stuff didn’t suited his style of work. Most of [...]
Have you ever been part of/witnessed a team trying desperately to adopt Agile, and the more they tried to adapt it, more hellish their life became ? I have seen agile adoption failures. And what I have learned from that experience is, that the problem was not Agile. The problem was the way, the processes [...]
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